Judging from incoming summative protocols, oligarch Bidzina
Ivanishvili’s aims are as clear as ever. He is doubling down on his
efforts to remove our political party in particular, and political
class in general, from Georgian political scene.
I would like to provide you with two unprecedented instances which
prove that elections were rigged. I would like to stress that the
weight of the following evidence is unprecedented.

1. #5 electoral district of Isani: at #25 polling station,
according to summative protocol, our candidate for Mayorship
received 44 votes, majoritarian candidate received 66 votes,
whereas our political party received only 6 votes. When our
majoritarian candidate Vladimir Kobakhidze, alongside with our
representatives in commission demanded the recount, all commission
members including the head of commission responded to us by
offering our party additional 50 votes, without recount (!). The
explanation of the Head of Commission was that he knew that we
received more than 6 votes. Therefore, to avoid the political
fallout, he decided to give us 56 votes in amended summative
protocol, signed by all commission members.

2. #30 electoral district of Kaspi: at #28 polling station, our
majoritarian candidate received 159 votes and won. Immediately
after the announcement of results, members of Security Service
arrived at the polling station and brought about his defeat with 3
votes. As a result, our candidate was stripped of his victory. Our
majoritarian candidate proved to be resilient and shifted his
attention to our party votes – our party was given 0 votes in face
of our majoritarian candidate’s 159. As it was clear to our
candidate that our votes were stolen, he asked one simple question,
he demanded an explanation where was his 1 single vote that he cast
to his own political party? Similarly, to the aforementioned case,
the summative protocol was amended without recount, and our party
was given additional 42 votes.

I would like to stress that only at the aforementioned two
stations, our political party was given additional 92 votes. If we
are being robbed of our votes even 10 times smaller the rate, our
predictions of 12-14% would have been easily achieved.

In the meantime, majoritarian candidate from Akhalkalaki (which is
our traditional stronghold) is asking the same question – why is
that, on number of polling stations, we have received 0 votes when
we know that we have received at least 80 votes per polling
station? Similarly, he has filed a complaint requesting the
recount, was rejected and is now appealing to court.

I would like to proclaim that we are not going to tolerate this
degree of contempt. At this moment, these types of evidence are
being collected all across Georgia. I will refrain from presenting
them to you until they are finalised for Tomorrow’s meeting between
our party and representatives from ODIHR, IRI, NDI, ISFED and
diplomatic corps.

We are not going to let the ruling party rob our voters from their
basic and constitutional right – to cast a vote according to their
will!

We will keep you updated following the conclusion of our Tomorrow
afternoon’s meeting